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Green light?
Every so often the little green online light (two little computers)
disappears from the toolbar, but I'm still online. I put the light back by unticking the box in network settings, and then ticking the box. No big deal, I am just wondering why this happens. |
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Green light?
"Mr Pounder Esquire" wrote:
Every so often the little green online light (two little computers) disappears from the toolbar, but I'm still online. Do you connect automatically to the network or manually when needed? Is it missing after a boot up, login, manual connection or does it disappear sometime after? I put the light back by unticking the box in network settings, and then ticking the box. No big deal, I am just wondering why this happens. It's quite common and can be caused by timing. The notification or tray area is part of Windows Explorer and if the Explorer process is busy when another process is trying to add an icon that operation may time out and fail. I had a service that was causing all tray icons to not appear at boot. The fix was to change the startup type from automatic to manual. If your icon is initially present but disappears during a session (assuming you haven't disabled the network) then I don't know! |
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Green light?
In message , Apd writes:
"Mr Pounder Esquire" wrote: Every so often the little green online light (two little computers) disappears from the toolbar, but I'm still online. [] If your icon is initially present but disappears during a session (assuming you haven't disabled the network) then I don't know! I read Steve's post as meaning that - it was there but disappears - as I thought I remembered the same thing sometimes from when I was on XP. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf But this can only happen if we replace the urge to blame with the urge to learn so that it is safe for staff to admit errors and raise concerns without the fear of being punished. - Former MI5 boss Eliza Manningham-Buller, RT 2016/5/7-13 |
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Green light?
Apd wrote:
"Mr Pounder Esquire" wrote: Every so often the little green online light (two little computers) disappears from the toolbar, but I'm still online. Do you connect automatically to the network or manually when needed? Is it missing after a boot up, login, manual connection or does it disappear sometime after? I put the light back by unticking the box in network settings, and then ticking the box. No big deal, I am just wondering why this happens. It's quite common and can be caused by timing. The notification or tray area is part of Windows Explorer and if the Explorer process is busy when another process is trying to add an icon that operation may time out and fail. I had a service that was causing all tray icons to not appear at boot. The fix was to change the startup type from automatic to manual. If your icon is initially present but disappears during a session (assuming you haven't disabled the network) then I don't know! It has always happened on a cold boot up the next day. Thanks for the info, thanks for the reply. |
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